Aloysius Martinich
Aloysius Patrick Martinich, usually cited as A. P. Martinich, also Al Martinich, is an American analytic philosopher. He is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin. His areas of interest are the nature and practice of interpretation, history of modern philosophy, the philosophy of language, the history of political thinking and Thomas Hobbes.
Biography
Martinich has specialized in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He is the author of The Two Gods of Leviathan, Hobbes: A Biography, and Hobbes's Political Philosophy.
Publications
Books
Thomas Hobbes, Computatio sive Logica: Part One of De Corpore, translation and commentary, New York: Abaris Books, 1981.The Philosophy of Language , New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.Philosophical Writing: An Introduction, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989; fourth edition Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2015.The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.A Hobbes Dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.Thomas Hobbes Perspectives on British History, London: Macmillan, 1997.Hobbes: A Biography, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, edited with David Sosa, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.Leviathan, Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2002; revised edition with Brian Battiste, 2011.Hobbes, New York: Routledge, 2005.Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary, Malden: Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy, 2007.Much Ado About Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.